白体诗里的想象世界——一论莎士比亚的戏剧语言

The World Within Elizabethan Blank Verse-Shakespeare’s Use of Language(Ⅰ).

过去读莎士比亚,碰到他在剧本台词里以不同词句不断重复一个意思,总以为这是当时的“修辞术”在起作用。观众喜欢这类修辞术,剧作家也就卖弄它,而当时英语处于急剧发展时期,词汇丰富,同义词特多。

This is the introduction to a study of Shakespeare's poetic language. It starts with the conditionsof the Elizabethan theatre, with its rhetoric-loving audience, the nature of English poetic drama (as con-trasted with the later, more disciplined drama of the French neoclassicists like Racine), and the evolutionof blank verse from Marlowe to Shakespeare. Passages are cited from Dr. Faustus and Troilus andCressida to show the greater flexibility and copiousness in Shakespeare's use of language. Yet he is alsoa master of emphasis and achieves his effects mainly through the use of metaphors, which reveal his worldview. Thus his insights and his imagination enrich as well as sharpen his poetic language.